From One Tailnet to Three: Designing Purpose-Based Network Segmentation at Render

From One Tailnet to Three: Designing Purpose-Based Network Segmentation at Render

From One Tailnet to Three: Designing Purpose-Based Network Segmentation at Render

In this talk, I'll share where our current single-tailnet setup is creating pressure, why we believe splitting by purpose rather than by team or environment is the right model, and how we're thinking about using app connectors to control AI workload traffic.

As our security needs evolve, we're designing a move toward purpose-specific tailnets - focused on separating ops, experimentation, and AI workload routing into distinct trust boundaries.